Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-12-17
UNREWARDEO HEROISM.
A Brave Young Dudes Noble Efforts to
 Subd1e Cranky Horse.

Brave Young Dudes Noble Efforts to
 subd1e Cranky Horse.
 So you like to fly to the assistance of the young lady in distress?-of course you do-all young men do-Mr. Percy St. Vincent, of Sioux Falls, does-but not so well as he did before recent narrowing experience.
 Percy St. Vincent is one of our most expensive and highly polished society young men. He has the rocks, too. His father is president of four banks, treasurer of half dozen loan and trust companies and owns an interest in a corner drug store. o. Percy grades up well, socially and financially.
 However, that doesn't prevent his being somewhat gone on Miss Amelia Robinson, one of our most bewitching society belles. But, then, that's all right. for Amelia is sumner. And her father is well heeled, too. But there isn't any need of our beating around the bush and taking all day to tell short stOry-we aren't paid by the rod for this kind of stuff
 Last Saturday afternoon Amelia was driving along the principal street of our city with her fathers carriage and a large, blonde horse. She was alone. The horse saw bakers wagon and began to shy. Amelia gave lady like little scream and said: 70, please, wont somebody help me with this hor- rid horser'
 Percy heard it. He calculated the accident was worth one hundred dol, jars to him.
 He hastily jerked his hat off and tapped his vest pattern a couple of times with it, as token of recognition, and rushed out.
 1t were better for that horse," thought Percy St. Vincent to himself, ''that he had never been born. will tkrow him down and sit on him!'
 Did he? An, Ina! read on and see this is no place to stop and ask ques- tions.
 Percy grabbed the horse by the bit with both hands, and gave him a powerful jerk to starboard. It seemed as if that horse kept on his feet remark ably we'll.
 Percy started to give it to him again when the horse,rose up on his hind legs. Percy hadn't noticed before that the horse was eight feet high. And he never knew till then that a horse is six times as high when he gets on his hind legs as when he stands down in travel ing attitude. Percy noticed all this be- cause he kept hold of the bit and went up with the horse. You'd have mo- ticcd it. too. ifyou been up command ing a view of the post-oflice, the Deficit National Bank and the electric light pole.
 Percy was fond of scenery and he gazed down on the opera house and hose-tower and enjoyed himself.
 The horse came down after awhile but he went up again. He seemed to be the greatest horse to rise up and rest his chin on the telegraph wires that Percy ever saw.
 And part of the time he was shaking his head, like dog when he gets hold of cat, and all the time he was striking at Percy with his fore feet so that he daren't let go for fear the horse would charge on him and hit him.
 And Miss Amelia-screaming, sir!- screaming like a Hottentot!
 And occasionally hitting the horse with the whip and pulling on the wrong line.
 It was getting serlous. The horse was beginning to turn around. He was getting his nose higher up in the air every time he elevated himself. Percy though he caught little frightened views of Omaha, Nebraska, once or twice.
 all grinning-diabolical, heathenish grins. Every one of them had been mad at first because Percy had got ahead of them in going to her rescue, but now-nothing but grins and an oc- casional mocking laugh. And one man yelled: "Throw the hoss over yer shoulder-crack him over yer shoulder an break his backr'
 What did Percy hear nextP Great heavens, it was so!-the shrill voice oi Miss Amelia: ''For pity's sake, some body make that fellow let my horse alone"
 o death, where is thy sting!
 Just then big policeman got Percy by the shoulders and pulled him away and sat him down in the gutter. The policeman got into the buggy to drive for Amelia, and Percy saw her look uE thankfully into the big policeman: eyes, and heard her say: If the big fool had left my horse alone we would have been all right-what vas he trying to do anyhowp" -Ddkotd Bell.
 Overreached Himself.